Topic: HIV Testing & Diagnosis

HIV counseling and testing occurs in a wide range of contexts in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Situations as diverse as community outreach, partner testing, pregnancy, and labor and delivery call for special counseling approaches on the part of clinical staff. The technology of testing has continued to evolve with rapid tests, oral tests, and home tests. Finally, legal requirements for offering and documenting tests in a health care settings have also shifted in many states and jurisdictions.

Tools and Job Aids

This is a brief assessment tool for counselors and testing staff to use with persons newly-diagnosed with HIV to assess their linkages to care in terms of health coverage, finances, housing, and social supports.

Reports and Best Practices

This is a resource guide for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) funded organizations to provide care to people living with HIV (PLWH) who are leaving prisons and jails and reentering society after incarceration. It describes proven models for linkage to care programs that can help PLWH access healthcare upon release in order to stay healthy, treatment adherent, HIV virally suppressed, and reduce their changes of recidivism.

These workbooks describe ways to help connect people living with HIV/AIDS to medical care. Workbook II contains 25 projects, and includes approaches for keeping rural patients connected, and programs for link recently incarcerated patients to a support network.

In It Together: National Health Literacy Project for Black MSM. In It Together is a health literacy training initiative for health care professionals serving black/African American Men who have Sex with Men (MSM).

Well Versed is an online resource to enhance care interactions experienced by Black MSM. The site presents information and videos for health care providers and patients to help them at each stage of a care interaction.

High-impact HIV prevention interventionsbased upon scientifically proven, cost-effective, and scalable interventions directed to the most vulnerable populations in the geographic areas where HIV prevalence is highest.